Search Results: Titles starting with L from BIAbooks

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collectible, pristine booK. Former cop turned lawyer Stone Barrington investigates a Hollywood homicide in this "stylish whodunit" "Entertainment novels can't get any better than this."-Associated Press. "A pleasure to read....A stylish whodunit."-The Detroit News

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A COLLECTIBLE Book. In the late 18th century, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby defied all conventions of their Irish homeland and eloped to Wales as a married couple. "Understated and elegant, this slim book is a true classic on that rarest of relationships, companions of the heart."---San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers Award 1998. SIGNED. Her second novel is set in a rural English village and tells of two people surprised halfway through their lives by love. "Brown eloquently explores the terrain of human interactions, showing how genuine love can exalt ordinary individuals."---Publishers Weekly. "Carrie Brown is a writer of uncommon gifts: lovely, lyrical language and startling originality."--Lee Smith. A very attractive book that appears UNREAD. Keywords: ENGLISH MIDDLEAGED NANNY POSTMASTER ROMANCE LOVE

Orlando, FL: Harcourt Inc., 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book."With adroit sleight of narrative hand, McPhee dramatizes cultural contrasts, the unending repercussions of first love, the gradual metamorphosis of the self, the erotics of heartbreak, and the consolation of beauty." --Booklist. " Martha McPhee plainly ranks as one of our countrys best young writers."--Tim O'Brien

New York: Farrar,Straus,Giroux, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Book and text in fine condition. DJ has minor edge wear, one closed tear on top edge of back panel and a 2"X1/4" rub on front bottom corner of front panel. "A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil.... Convincing and chilling." -The New York Times Book Review "Eloquent, reckless, accurate, hilarious...plunges forward through tawdry bedroom mysteries toward a final grand puzzle." -Washington Post Book World

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. Author's FIRST book. ".heralds the arrival of a major nonfiction talent. "Madhusree Mukerjee .bears wtiness to the demise of one of the most ancient and least known cultures on earth."--John Horgan. Keywords: NONFICTION ANTHROPOLOGY STONE AGE ISLANDERS SENTINELESE ANDAMAN BAY BENGAL ANDAMANESE INDIA ABORIGINALS

New York: Viking Penguin, 1997. First Edition, Second Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Larry's odyssey mirrors the male condition at the end of our century with targeted wit, unerring poignancy, and faultless wisdom. Ms. Shield's won the Orange Prize for 'Larry's Party', the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and for her last novel 'Unless'. She died in 2003. Shield's "deals in profound issues of human experience, drawing them from everyday existence with vulnerable honesty and a good dose of painkilling humor"--The Philadelphia Inquirer

New York: Viking Penguin, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. A first Canadian Random House edition. Larry's odyssey mirrors the male condition at the end of our century with targeted wit, unerring poignancy, and faultless wisdom. Ms. Shield's won the Orange Prize for 'Larry's Party', the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and for her last novel 'Unless'. She died in 2003. Shield's "deals in profound issues of human experience, drawing them from everyday existence with vulnerable honesty and a good dose of painkilling humor"--The Philadelphia Inquirer. Minor rubbing on front edge and on one corner of DJ.

New York: Viking Penguin, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Larry's odyssey mirrors the male condition at the end of our century with targeted wit, unerring poignancy, and faultless wisdom. Ms. Shield's won the Orange Prize for 'Larry's Party', the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize for 'The Stone Diaries' and for her last novel 'Unless'. She died in 2003. Shield's "deals in profound issues of human experience, drawing them from everyday existence with vulnerable honesty and a good dose of painkilling humor"--The Philadelphia Inquirer

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "Army, Navy, Lafayette, Lehigh, Bucknell, Holy Cross and Colgate: these seven colleges make up the Patriot League, basketball's smallest Division I conference. In this book, NPR commentator and bestselling sportswriter Feinstein (A Season on the Brink, The Majors, etc.) gives an exhaustive account of the Patriot League's 1999-2000 season.". Publishers Weekly

London: Bloomsbury, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A FINE collectible book. An astonishingly funny and poignant new collection of short stories from Jay McInerney - one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation.McInerney's writing has crackling humor and a feverish, clear-sighted brilliance that perfectly underpins the lives of people living in modern America. These stories are deftly constructed, subtle, insightful and heartbreaking. Steeped in history but yet alive in the present - this new collection is a companion to the sweet madness of life. 'Stories of sex and money set in and around New York City, where gentle satire and situation comedy give way to dark epiphanies about doomed marriages or social failures' - Guardian. 'Elegant, sly and blackly humorous' - Daily Mail

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is a pristine book that appears UNREAD. "The Last Buffalo Hunter is terriffic! It's modern-day Montana with the raw bark of the old West still on it. It's Ken Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion moved a few mountains east, but just as tough, vibrant and cantankerous in its voice."--Robert F. Jones

New York: Random House, 2009. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attrative book. ¿Absolutely unmissable . . . [A] big-hearted, brilliantly written and superbly realized intergenerational tale of a father and son.¿¿Financial Times

New York: Harper Perennial, 2007. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Author's FIRST novel. Soft cover release, no hardcover. Mr. Kulish was embedded with a Marine attack-helicopter squadron for the Wall Street Journal. "Illuminates the deadly absurdities of war.[Kulish has a] deft command of tone from the slapstick to the tragic."--Kirkus Reviews; "[A] steady flow of Yossarian flavored absurdity."--Publishers Weekly. This book is NEW and UNREAD.

New York, NY: Stein and Day, 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A collectible book. Minor edge wear on top edge of front panel and at comers. DJ is whole, bright and clean. Book binding and text is Fine. Serengeti, East Africa, a piece of land not much larger than the state of Connecticut, is a close to the Garden of Eden as any place in the world. .

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book is Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie's first novel in ten years. It is a perfect evocation of Key West and another dazzling demonstration of Lurie's talent for high comedy and social comment. A very attractive book.

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine SIGNED book. In this mesmerizing novel, Shreve examines the resilience of emotion and the extraordinary repercussions a single choice, even a single word, can have over a lifetime. The Last Time They Met moves backward to explore Linda's life years earlier, at age 26, when an affair with Thomas shattered her life, and at age 17, when they first met. ".a fluid weave of past and present, subtly mounting suspense, an unabashed insistence on the primacy of love." -- Newsday, 4/16/01

New York: Random House, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's DEBUT novel. "Thomas Mullen's debut is stirring, classic storytelling, with a deep resonance between the book's moment in history and our own times."--Matthew Pearl

Boston, MA: Hyperion Books, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. Author's critically acclaimed first book marks the debut of an extraordinary new voice in fiction.Wonderfully poignant and witty stories based on people and places she knows well, Ellen Slezak documents the colorful clash of young and old, of religious and secular, of traditional values and the temptations of the flesh. Like Winesburg, Ohio, Last Year's Jesus creates a fully realized world teetering on the brink of change. Writing with tremendous empathy, warmth, and humor, Slezak brings to life the sights and sounds of a place she calls home -- a place readers won't soon forget.